Babatunde Fashola, the minister of works and housing, has refuted suggestions that he has been chosen to serve as Bola Tinubu’s chief of staff.
In an interview with Sunday Politics on Channels Television, Fashola referred to the assertions made on social media as being completely absurd and advised well-meaning Nigerians to disregard them.
The minister advised Nigerians to refrain from picking leaders for the country on social media, wait for Tinubu to be sworn in, and respect his right and privilege to choose his team.
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Fashola, however, claimed that after serving as Tinubu’s chief of staff for four and a half years while the governor of Lagos State, he is unlikely to hold that position again.
When asked directly by the interviewer if he would be playing the role this time around, Fashola replied: “Unlikely, I don’t think so. I think it is a good point you raised, I think it is extremely ridiculous and I say it without apology, we begin to choose offices for a nation that represents the largest black nation on earth on social media and we should stop it.
“I think we have elected the president, let us wait for him to be sworn in, and let us respect the privilege and the prerogative he has to constitute his team, no serious nation does what rascals are doing on social media, saying this one is this, this one is that, picking ministers and so on.
“We just saw over two years ago when Biden was elected, there was nothing like that, we should stop ridiculing this country, it is not social engagement.
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“I think it is extremely ridiculous, look we can’t begin to even contemplate what the president-elect will do and we should wait until he makes his decision.”
The former governor of Lagos went on to say that the APC trained 2,000 agents from every state and sent them there to train the agents in their own states.
Some of the agents, according to Fashola, who oversaw the APC Presidential Campaign Council’s Planning Directorate, traveled to the US to support Tinubu.
He noted that the ruling party conducted internal polls prior to the election but never made them public. He said that these polls were “badly conducted” and projected the victories of Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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The minister added that the party was aware of its outcomes from the situation room prior to the INEC’s official announcement.
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